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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Saving/digitizing Dietrich Bonhoeffer's paper

The fate Dietrich Bonhoeffer's papers hangs on whether the Berlin State Library can raise $52,500 to preserve and digitize them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-Nazi Protestant theologian who was executed for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler. In his book The Cost of Discipleship, he wrote the words that are still clarion call for many:

"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace."

You may consider helping give the future access to his thought by visiting the project page, ( It is in German, but readily translated.) and arranging a donation.

When the project is completed, they are to be published on the Web for all the freely read.

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